It was these four seemingly non-sensical words that set off one of the great events in the history of our house. When our son was growing up, he could not pronounce his ‘sp’ or ‘sq’ sounds at all, and instead substituted the ‘f’ sound for each of them. So, Sprite became Frite, spoon became foon, […]
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Burying It In The Ground
There is a story in the Bible about the use of what has been given to you called the Parable of the Talents. In the well-known story, a master goes away and leaves his three servants with differing amounts of money. To one of the servants he leaves five talents, to another two, and to […]
Tax Day
Today I would like to celebrate a few things in light of it being the day ( officially ) that all of our taxes are due. It’s a day where lots of people like to gripe and moan about how much they pay in taxes. I would like to offer some counterpoints. They are true […]
This is 40
Today was one of those days where each time you turn around something else seems really wrong. It’s also one of those days where you are thankful for another day of health and opportunity. In the small school where my daughter used to attend, the father of 2 young girls died from complications from a […]
The Challenge – Live In The Present
How many of us actually live one day at a time? I am not talking about the irresponsible notion of not planning and accounting for the possibility of tomorrow, but I mean living today like it is the only day that matters? I was reading this morning in Pascal’s Penseé #47, which says: “We never […]
For Twenty Ten – More And Less
I have spent some of this Christmas season doing something I have wanted to do for a long time. I have been getting all of our home movies off of my ( now ) ancient Hi 8 tapes and onto my computer. It has been fun learning about making my own movies and messing around […]
Oral Roberts Dead at 91
I just received a note via email that Oral Roberts died as a result of pneumonia complications at the age of 91. As one of the ( relatively ) few alums of Oral Roberts University, I am immediately both saddened and uplifted. I went to ORU at a time when things were really going poorly. […]
Update On My GoogleVoice Voicemail Experiment
A few weeks ago, I ported my mobile phone voicemail to GoogleVoice. After a few hiccups getting started, I am now comfortably settled in to using this as my only source for voicemail. What I like about it: 1. I love that regardless of what number I give out ( and I am now only […]
Getting Twitter Updates Via Google Voice
This morning I was doing some testing on an application I am building for work, and wanted to set up my Twitter account to forward my SMS messages to my Google Voice account. The setup for Twitter’s mobile integration requires that you send a text message to Twitter’s short code to get things rolling. I […]
Money or Happiness ( Or Both )
I ran across this interesting graph in another article I was reading this morning. The theory behind the graph is that money and happiness are inversely related. The more money you make, the less you do of the things you love to do. The graph, courtesy of Juhan Sonin: This relates to my post earlier […]